In Culpeper County, Virginia, the troublesome Fogarty brothers have been raising havoc across the countryside in 1861, and when local lawman Will Brannon returns from another futile attempt to track them down, South Carolina has seceded from the Union. Will enlists, but so do the Fogartys. As the Brannon brothers answer the call to arms, the family struggles with dilemmas it had never considered.

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